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For Marx, the commune tantalized the bourgeois mind, but in contemporary Venezuela this applies to the popular classes as well, many of whom have thrown their weight behind the project of the communal state as a vehicle for transforming not only the economy but the state as well. This paper tracks both the genealogy of the concept of the communal state as well as the contemporary unfolding of the commune on the ground in Venezuela.